Recent News

Dr. Steven Walker and his East Central University Chorale was twice paid the ultimate compliment after the group captured the top prize at the recent Golden State Choral Competition in Monterey, California.

Not only did the ECU Chorale fare better than numerous professional and more experienced choral groups, they thoroughly impressed famous composer Dr. Morten Lauridsen, with one of his own and most difficult pieces of music – “Chanson Eloignee.”

East Central University’s chapter of the Student Oklahoma Education Association (SOEA) helped provide Christmas gifts for students at Ada High School.

“Many people take the time to help with ‘Angel Tree’ gifts for elementary students, but they often forget that our older students like to be remembered at Christmas as well,” said Paula Keady, executive director of academics and instruction for Ada City Schools.

“Theatrical magic” comes to East Central University and the Ada community with the Royal National Theatre's internationally acclaimed production of "War Horse" (New York Times).

The recorded-live “theatre event of the decade” (Sunday Times) will screen in the Raymond J. Estep Multimedia Center of the Bill S. Cole University Center on Wednesday, Dec. 21 at 2 p.m. The screening is free for ECU students, $5 for other students, and $10 for general admission. Free ice-cream will be served during the interval.

The East Central University Chapter of Alpha Chi initiated 85 new students in a ceremony held on Nov. 15 in the Chickasaw Business and Conference Center.

Alpha Chi is comprised of the top 10 percent of juniors and seniors at ECU. Students must have at least a 3.5 grade-point average to be eligible to join. The objective of Alpha Chi is to promote and recognize superior scholarship and those elements of character which make scholarship effective for service. The society, founded in 1922, has more than 300 chapters.

Through the efforts of students in East Central University’s Department of Political Science and Legal Studies, 533 new voters were registered as ECU took first place in the White Division (institutions of 3,001 to 7,000 full-time enrollment) of the Oklahoma Campus Compact Voter Registration Contest.

ECU registered 12.2 percent of its fulltime students during the registration drive which took place at a booth set up in front of the Horace Mann Building, Oct. 3-7. Northern Oklahoma College was second in the division at 6.3 percent.

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